On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Peter Eisch wrote: > hds=`awk '{print $4}' < /proc/partitions |grep sd[a-z]$` > >I can skip the hardware raid controllers (cciss/ida <--assuming that's a >raid controller) as folks are already doing hardware raid. > >Would a scsi cdrom show up under /dev/cd* or might it pose as an sd-device? >(I've never loaded a system with something other than atapi drives it >seems.) SCSI CDs appear as /dev/scd*, and don't appear at all (IIRC) in /proc/partitions, although some CDs (e.g. Solaris installation discs) *do* have a partition table but I don't think Linux fully supports them. Cheers, Phil